{"id":58312,"date":"2015-02-18T09:59:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T14:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=58312"},"modified":"2015-02-18T09:59:43","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T14:59:43","slug":"john-lauriello-iwo-vet-gets-to-land-at-beach-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58312","title":{"rendered":"John Lauriello; Iwo vet gets to land at beach again"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Iwo\"<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Marine_7002 reminds us that the battle for Iwo Jima (Operation Detachment) began 70 years ago tomorrow and he sends us the story about a communit<\/a>y which raised the funds to send 91-year-old veteran John Lauriello for his second landing on the island;<\/p>\n

Ade said donations as of Tuesday totaled nearly $20,000 \u2014 more than the goal of $12,000 to cover airfare, hotels and other expenses for the Lauriellos. The 10-day trip to the Pacific island starts March 16 and requires four flights between the U.S. and Iwo Jima.<\/p>\n

Ade said contributions will be turned over to the Iwo Jima Association of America to pay for the Lauriellos’ trip and possibly for another Iwo Jima veteran.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Lauriello will be returning to where he landed with the first wave of Marines on the beach to fight an entrenched enemy that hid in caves and tunnels. The battle later was memorialized by a Marine statue depicting the U.S. flag-raising on Mount Suribachi \u2014 an event Lauriello witnessed from a distance as a member of the 5th Marines, 27th Regiment.<\/p>\n

“I’m just flabbergasted and so excited thinking about it,” he admitted. “I would like to extend my sincerest thanks to them for such a generous outpouring and for their concern.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to Wiki<\/a>, Mr. Lauriello was lucky – of the 70,000 Marines and soldiers who assaulted the island, about ten percent were killed and more than a quarter were wounded during the five-week battle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marine_7002 reminds us that the battle for Iwo Jima (Operation Detachment) began 70 years ago tomorrow … John Lauriello; Iwo vet gets to land at beach again<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}